Question about SCH 5.0: Mana managment

[LariaKirin]

MP management is fine. It is essentially equivalent to the MP regen you would have had in SB if you saved 3 aetherflow stacks for healing each minute.

AoW does not cost too much MP. AoW costs less than Miasma II did, proportionally to your MP pool.

As others have said, you need to use Lucid Dreaming on cooldown.

[tinythinker]

MP management is fine. It is essentially equivalent to the MP regen you would have had in SB if you saved 3 aetherflow stacks for healing each minute.

I am specifically asking about situations when sustained AoE is desirable, such as FATES with lots of mobs, dungeons where mob pulls are taking forever to die (and it isn't just Trust runs, we've all seen parties where one or both DPS are allergic to their AOE skills), etc. In SB we had Shadowflare, Bio2 + Miasma spread out with Bane, etc. to help with sustained AoE over time. Miasma 2 was nice but even without it there was a strong AoE contribution. Now we only have Art of War. On AST and WHM it seems like Lucid + Lightspeed and Lucid + Thin Air (+ Assize) respectively keep Gravity and Holy rolling along nicely for extended periods of AoE. So far I haven't found the same true for Lucid + Aetherlow. Hence my post.

AoW does not cost too much MP. AoW costs less than Miasma II did, proportionally to your MP pool.

As others have said, you need to use Lucid Dreaming on cooldown.

And as others have said, including my OP, I am using Lucid on cooldown, even using Aetherflow on CD despite the number of remaining stacks, and again for extended periods of AoE I either switch to single target or go OOM. Also as just mentioned, Miasma 2 was used in concert with other long-lasting abilities for AoE prior to 50.0 so while it was nice, you didn't need to spam it to keep up AoE.

Thus my asking for advice and whether things get better at higher (gear levels), or if there is some trick other than keeping Lucid and Aetherflow on CD. If other people are able to spam Art of War for as long as WHM can spam Holy or AST can spam Gravity, then I am curious how so I can do better. If it's simply the case that SCH can't go as long as the other two healers for AoE, that's fine, I'll just do what I can with the tools given